Horse-collar fastener



(Ne Model.)

J. H. EMERSGN.

y HORSE COLLAR PASTBNBR. No. 423,676. Patented Mar. 18, 1890.

UNITED STATES4 PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. EMERSON, OF ST. JOSEPH, MISSOURI.

HORS E-CO LLAR FASTEN ER. j

' SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No.`423,676, dated March 1'8, 1890.

Application led January 3, 1890. Serial No. 335,809. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. EMERSON, of St. Joseph, in the county of Buchanan and State of Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Horse-Collar Fastenings, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an iinprovement in horse-collar fastenings which are designed to be applied to horse-collars which open at their lower ends; and it consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of two metal plates adapted to be applied to collars of any size, and to form an easily-operated and efficient locking device, as hereinafter fully described.

Figure l is a perspective view of the two plates in the position which they occupy just before being locked, and Fig. 2 is a similar view with the plates locked.

A B are two metal tangs of tapering form curved to correspond to the bend of the collar and adapted to be fastened by rivets, screws, bolts, stitching, or other well-known means to the lower ends of the collar upon the inside of the same. These tangs have respectively upon their adjacent ends rightangularly projecting metal plates A B. A is formed with undercut grooves and overlapping edges a a, and B is formed of a width to it in the grooves and be retained by the overlapping flanges or edges a a. The flanges a ct are set at an angle to each other, converging to the upper end, and the plate B is made of a tapering form to correspond, so that plate B may be easily entered between the iianges from the lower side and moved upwardly to a locking position, where the flanges a a hold the plate B and prevent the two plates and the ends of the collar, to which they are attached, from separating.

At the lower end of plate B on. each side there are formed feet or stops b b, which are received into recesses a d in plate A', and serve to limit the upward movement of plate 5 B into the grooves of the plate A.

In the lower portion of each plate A B there are formed slots 0.2192, which, when the plates are locked, come into coincidence or registration. The object of this is to give passage to the hame-strap, which, when eX- tended through these slots, cannot slip out of place, and serves also to make a secure fastening of the plates which are thus locked, so that they cannot separate by sliding away from each other.

O is a T-shaped lug formed upon one of the tangs B near its plate. Upon this T-shaped lug there hooks ametalloop D, that is adapted to receive the martingale or neck-yoke strap. When the tang B is fastened to the collar, this loop D is secured by the collar to the lug O, so that it cannot get loose. This martingale loop may be permanently secured to the fastener, if desired.

I am aware that it is not broadly new to connect the lower ends of a collar by sockets having -a dovetail sliding connection moving in a vertical plane, and I do not Vclaim this, broadly.

By constructing the plates A B upon the tangs A and B the fastcnings may be applied to collars of different sizes and thickness.

Having thus udescribed my invention, what I claim as new isl. The collar-fastening lconsisting of the two tangs A and B, having right-angular plates A B at their adjacent ends, the plate` A being formed with undercut grooves and overlapping angesca, and a slot cand the plate B being formed with registering slots b2 and stop-feet b b, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the collar-fastening, of the T-shaped lug C, formed thereon, and the metal loop D, secured thereto to receive the martingale or n eck-yoke strap, substantially as shown and described.

. JOI-IN H. EMERSON.

Y/Vitnesses: l

J. C. HEDENBERG, W. W. BEENARD. 

